pasteurisation

pasteurisation

English

Alternative forms

• pasteurization

Etymology

From French pasteurisation, from the surname of its inventor, Louis Pasteur.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

pasteurisation (countable and uncountable, plural pasteurisations)

1. (British spelling) Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the surviving cells and germination of spores.
   • 1959 March, R. C. Rley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 155, 157:

     Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.

Related terms

• pasteurise

Translations

treatment of perishable food

Bulgarian: пастьоризация f (pastjorizacija) Chinese: Mandarin: 巴氏消毒法 (Bāshì xiāodúfǎ), 巴氏殺菌／巴氏杀菌 (zh) (Bāshì shājùn) Czech: pasterizace f Finnish: pastörointi (fi) French: pasteurisation (fr) f German: Pasteurisierung (de) f Greek: παστερίωση (el) f (pasteríosi) Italian: pastorizzazione (it) f Japanese: パスチャライゼーション (ja) (pasucharaizēshon), 低温殺菌 (ja) (ていおんさっきん, teion sakkin) Norwegian: Bokmål: pasteurisering m or f Nynorsk: pasteurisering f Polish: pasteryzacja (pl) f Portuguese: pasteurização (pt) f Russian: пастериза́ция (ru) f (pastɛrizácija) Spanish: pasterización (es) f, pasteurización (es) f Swedish: pastörisering (sv) c

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French

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Noun

pasteurisation f (plural pasteurisations)

1. pasteurisation

Further reading

• “pasteurisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.